Beginning Weaving
Learn all the basics and go home to show off your very own cotton dish towel, twill gamp (sampler) and scarf! Students will become accustomed to looms and all their parts, learn to read and follow …
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Beginning Spinning
Our beginning class covers all the basics to get you started. Learn about different types of wools and their uses for different styles of yarn, the process of washing raw wool, how to prepare worst…
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Learn to Weave on a Rigid Heddle
Want to learn a very simple, portable technique for creating plain weave projects? This class has been designed for you. The class will cover fundamental information including warp calculations and…
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Warp and Weave
Already taken a basic weaving class, but having problems when it comes time to warp the loom? Warping the loom is not as difficult as it sometimes seems, and we’ll let you in on our secrets a…
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Saori Weaving
An introduction to SAORI weaving. Experience no rules weaving focusing on natural creativity. Students will be introduced to the philosophy of freestyle and basic weaving techniques before being se…
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Painting with Pixels An Intro into Bead Weaving
Turn your vision into an applied art form. Merging the basics of traditional weaving, modern digital art and beading all into one project students will learn how to take a simple image and turn it…
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Zanshi and Sakiori
Sakiori and Zanshi fabrics have their roots in recycling Japanese fabrics. Sakiori uses very narrow strips of fabric much like a rag rug, but with a drape that makes it suitable for clothing. Zansh…
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Clasped Weft for Floor Loom or Rigid Heddle
This course has been designed for those weavers who are looking for a more organic approach to adding visual texture to their woven fabrics. In this class students will be introduced to a technique…
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Silk Painted Scarves
I am sure you have seen and admired those scarves that have that ever changing mix of colors. The technique gives them an impressionistic and moody ground that can be woven with a favorite fancy …
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Ojo de Dios
These are not the simple God’s Eye weavings from summer camp! “Ojo de Dios”, or yarn mandalas, are enjoying an artistic resurgence. Originally a Mexican folk art, these w…
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Scottish Tweeds and District Checks
Tweed cloth has been woven in Scotland for centuries, using natural sheep colors and local plant dyes that imitate the colors of the heather hills. The earliest simple patterned cloth was the Shep…
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Artful Jacket
Spend two inspiring days fitting and creating your own Tabula Rasa Jacket from Fit for Art Patterns. We’ll get right to work with a personalized fitting using the Tabula Rasa Jacket mock-ups t…
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